target is in black box
orange is styloid process
blue is two ijv
and The area is directly above c1 transverse process
and this is my scan file
Not an expert, I would guess soft tissue like muscle? I can’t open your other images, so not too sure I’m afraid. Your styloid in the image above looks pretty thick, so could well be contributing to IJV compression.
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I agree w/ @Jules that the area you circled in black are muscles. There are muscles that can add to IJV compression such as the SCM & posterior digastric. I’m not sure if either of the muscles you have circled are one of those as I’m not that good at reading CT axial images. You do have the IJV & styloid circled correctly.
Have you decided where you’ll go for surgery yet or do you have surgery scheduled?
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I haven’t looked into both the hospital and the schedule. thank you
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yes i think so thank you
Contrast-enhanced tissue on above c1 transverse process
original place will be Rectus Capitis Lateralis
I don’t know what that could be…
@NoneElongatedStyloid - Do you know what vertebra level the slice w/ the red spot is i.e. C1, C2, C3, etc.?
We’re most familiar with what we see at the level of C1. Below that, we don’t have experience in identifying structures in the axial images. I’m also not familiar w/ the particular area of the coronal slice you put up.